A Deep Learning Approach to Assist in Pottery Reconstruction from Its Sherds by Matheus Ferreira Coelho Pinho, Guilherme Lucio Abelha Mota, Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro da Costa

“…In addition to overcoming the scarcity of real sherd data, given a virtual sherd in its original position, that procedure provides paired canonical and normalized point clouds, as well as the target Euclidean transformation. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of wastage of commonly used anaesthetic agents in the operating theatres of a South African teaching hospital by P Majara, G Leballo

“…Prospective data were collected for all patients who presented for elective and emergency surgical procedures at this institution over a 2-week period. …”
Get full text

The Impact of Vitamin C Intake and Water Consumption on Perceived Fatigue among Female Tile Workers by Eli Sahiroh, Hanifa M. Denny, Yuliani Setyaningsih, Daru Lestantyo, Suroto Suroto

“…Each group participated in an experimental procedure lasting 6 days, after which they were assessed for levels of fatigue. …”
Get full text

Cupping therapy on low back pain. A systematic review by Natalia Maria Rulewska, Filip Grabowski, Klaudia Michalak, Kacper Janowski, Dagmara Neska

“…To address lower back pain, three common approaches are used: medications, surgical procedures, and rehabilitation programs. In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in developed countries, largely due to the side effects associated with traditional treatment methods. …”
Get full text

Phenotypic identification of Metallo-ß- lactamase resistance Gram negative bacteria from a clinical specimen in Sidama, Ethiopia. by Tsegaye Alemayehu, Wondwesson Abera, Musa Mohammed Ali, Bethelihem Jimma, Henok Ayalew, Limenih Habte, Frezer Teka, Demissie Asegu

“…Clinical specimens are processed based on the standard operating procedure of the Microbiology laboratory and Clinical laboratory standard institute guidelines. …”
Get full text

Laparoscopic intraperitoneal onlay mesh with fascial repair (IPOM plus) for ventral and incisional hernia by H. O. Havrylov, O. V. Shulyarenko, M. O. Yosypenko, V. V. Prepodobnyi, V. F. Vatamaniuk

“…Abdominal wall surgery for ventral hernia is one of the commonest procedures performed by the surgeons. The aim of the study is to evaluate short- and long-term outcomes in patients who underwent laparoscopic IPOM plus approach. …”
Get full text

Intra-aortic balloon pump can be used after acute type A aortic dissection repair by Akiko Tanaka, Yuki Ikeno, Harleen K. Sandhu, Charles C. Miller III, Hazim J. Safi, Anthony L. Estrera

“…The median clamp time was 108 min (interquartile range 89–157) and circulatory arrest time was 25 min (interquartile range 19–31). Concomitant procedures included 11 coronary artery bypass grafting (35%), 4 root replacements (13%) and 1 total arch replacement (3%). …”
Get full text

Beyond Hemostasis: Exploring Intra-articular Tranexamic Acid’s Analgesic Effect in Post-operative Care in Total Knee Arthroplasty – Original Article by Dilbans Singh Pandher, Nitish Khosla, Pardumanjit Singh Dhaliwal

“…Introduction: Tranexamic acid (TXA) is widely recognized for its hemostatic properties, particularly in reducing blood loss during surgical procedures. Recent studies, however, suggest that TXA may have potential analgesic benefits beyond its role in hemostasis. …”
Get full text

Describing youth participatory evaluation of educational interventions as a key domain of the social determinants of health: protocol for a scoping review by Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Amanda Sutter, Chisomo Phiri, Luna De La Cruz Perdomo

“…Data charting will also be done by trained coders and facilitated by Covidence and a codebook. Several procedures will be used to uphold rigour and consistency during this process. …”
Get full text

Effect of problem-based learning approach program on meta-cognitive thinking skills and cooperative learning attitude among nursing students: quasi experimental study by Shymaa Abdelhafez Mohamed, Sanaa Abd Elazim Ibrahim, Marwa Mohamed Abdelaalem, Noura Elgharib Mohamed Eldiasty

“…Data were collected by the Problem-Based Learning Approach Knowledge Questionnaire, the Metacognition Self-Assessment Scale, and the Students’ Cooperative Learning Attitude Questionnaire. The data analysis procedures which the study employed version 27.0 of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for data analysis using Shapiro–Wilk test and single-factor (time) repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Greenhouse–Geisser correction. …”
Get full text

Precarious perinatal care: experiences of incarcerated individuals in Ontario, Canada by Xaand Bancroft, Amy McGee, Audrey Ferron Parayre, Lisa Morgan, Wendy E. Peterson

“…These findings can inform the development of policies, procedures, and transitional resources during incarceration and post-release. …”
Get full text

In-vitro evaluation of multicomponent scaffold with kappa carrageenan, tendon extracellular matrix and calcium-magnesium silicate for periodontal bone regeneration by Supraja G., S. Balaji Ganesh, Raja Kumar, Gurumoorthy Kaarthikeyan

“…In vertical bone loss defects, therapy includes surgical procedures, such as flap surgery with debridement associated with scaffolds, grafts, or membranes. …”
Get full text

Combinatorial MD/QM studies to develop novel ionic liquid-based anticancer drug delivery systems with aminium derived from carbohydrates as cationic components by Sepideh Kalhor, Alireza Fattahi

“…We validate our findings by evaluating the interactions between the formulated ionic liquids and cell membranes using the DPPC model through combined MD simulations and docking procedures.…”
Get full text

Standard patient training versus Vik-Asthme chatbot-guided training: ‘AsthmaTrain’ – a protocol for a randomised controlled trial for patients with asthma by Arnaud Bourdin, Nicolas Molinari, Carey Meredith Suehs, David Galeazzi, Isabelle Vachier, François Vaast, Fanny Cardon

“…A single-Zelen consent procedure is deployed to first enrol all participants in the comparator arm, that is, the standard patient therapeutic education programme at the University Hospitals of Montpellier, France. …”
Get full text

Optimization of a GMP-compliant automated one-pot synthesis of Al[18F]F-NOTA-Ubiquicidin29 − 41 for bacterial infection imaging by PET/CT by Anna Meyer, Thomas Ziegler, Jutta Moosbauer, Dirk Hellwig, Christian Fischer

“…Quality control was successfully established using validated analytical procedures. Conclusions The developed GMP-compliant radiolabelling process yields reproducible results with sufficient activities for further translation and investigations of clinical PET/CT imaging using Al[18F]F-NOTA-UBI(29–41) in infectious diseases.…”
Get full text

Factors associated with postoperative recurrence in perforated colorectal cancer: unraveling the high recurrence rate of perforated colorectal cancer by Makoto Takagi, Seongcheol Kim, Masaomi Suzuki, Tetsuyoshi Takayama, Hiroshi Asano

“…Clinicopathological background factors (age, sex, localization, surgical procedure, stoma, T stage, lymphatic invasion, venous invasion, differentiation, extent of lymph node dissection, number of dissected lymph nodes, lymph node metastasis, postoperative complications, and 30-day postoperative death) of perforated and non-perforated colorectal cancers were investigated. …”
Get full text

Police legitimacy by M. P. Kleymenov, M. V. Sedeltsev

“…Legitimacy assessments are formed based on the study of public opinion – the official monitoring procedure. The website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs provides information on the results of monitoring public opinion about the activities of the police, but an analysis of its content allows us to note its superficiality and unconvincing optimism. …”
Get full text

Preliminary Qualitative Analysis of Plant Samples by High-performance Thin-layer Chromatography for the Presence of Steroid Sapogenins of Some Representatives of the Dioscoreacae,... by A. E. Sukhanov, I. A. Krylov, V. V. Sepp, K. S. Bakulin

“…We will optimize the HPLC separation procedure and choose other detection methods to unambiguously assess the co-presence of the studied sapogenins with approximately the same staining shades after derivatization and matching retention indices: there are pairs of steroidal sapogenins that have the same retention, we decided to group them in mixtures so that there would be separation within the group and subsequent comparison with the original extracts would make it possible to identify those or other sapogenins in such extracts.…”
Get full text

Data processing techniques to improve data integration from dairy farms by Jacquelyn P. Boerman, Luiz F. Brito, Maria E. Montes, Jacob M. Maskal, Jarrod Doucette, Kirby Kalbaugh

“…., data editing and quality control procedures, references and standards for novel sensor-based variables, and validation of obtained data across sensors), which is expected to continue playing a major role in the dairy industry sustainability.…”
Get full text

Mortality burden from variation in provision of surgical care in emergency general surgery: a cohort study using the National Inpatient Sample by Vanessa P Ho, Elizabeth Pfoh, Christopher W Towe, Adam T Perzynski, Wyatt P Bensken, Jarrod Dalton, Alfred F Connors, Jeffrey A Claridge

“…Operative management was determined from procedure codes. Each patient was assigned a propensity score (PS) for the likelihood of undergoing an operation, modeled from patient and hospital factors: EGS diagnosis, age, gender, race, presence of shock, comorbidities, and hospital EGS volumes. …”
Get full text